my ICML takeaways thus far
1. lots of talk on post training tooling
2. lots of speculation about inference margins for the labs
3. lots of research folks (in academia and industry!) told me about unfathomable days/WEEKS lead time to access single digit quantities of GPUs(!)
coming out of this conference - i have to give it to a few companies who really outshined the rest:
turbopuffer - @Sirupsen
modal - @modal
planetscale - @PlanetScale
factory - @FactoryAI
exa - @ExaAILabs
openrouter - @OpenRouter
obvious ones (Anthropic / OpenAI / Cursor)
A story on bicoastal networking
1. NYC girls bump into rando ex hinge date outside clurb
2. Rando ex hinge date invites NYC girls to afties
3. NYC girls befriend SF girls at afties
4. Both coast girls fan girl each other for years.
5. NYC girl becomes marketer
6. SF girl starts LED truck company
This week at AIE World’s Fair Modal has
- 3 speaking sessions
- 3 LED trucks
- 2 parties
- 2 dinners
- Booth all week (S4, Moscone West)
- Meeting Suite all week
Talk niccceeeeee to meeeee
Not because I’m a gr8 marketer, but because I’m in a sleepless and sensitive place rn 😣
“One must always speak the language of the person one wants to influence.” – Blaise Pascal
And that’s on spending the work day making slightly threatening memes to get notes from cracked engineers 💅 #fieldmarketing